US Patent Issued to Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research on Sept. 16 for "Systems and methods for surgical training model" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,716, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minn.).

"Systems and methods for surgical training model" was invented by William E. Clifton III (Jacksonville, Fla.), Aaron C. Damon (Jacksonville, Fla.), Eric W. Nottmeier (Atlantic Beach, Fla.), Mark A. Pichelmann (Ponte Bedgra Beach, Fla.) and Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa (Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a method for creating a surgical training model, a surgical training model apparatus, a bone model, an article that emulates tissue of an animal musculoskeletal system, an article that emulate...